Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 176 73 53
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 15.36% 10.98% 11.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.21% 33.80% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 55 40
10th Percentile £400 £317 £481
25th Percentile £438 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -12.64% -8.31%
75th Percentile £594 £569 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £492 £513
% change year-on-year +1.73% -4.10% -6.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 417 216 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.39% 32.48% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 157 94
10th Percentile £361 £309 £400
25th Percentile £447 £384 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £493 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -5.68% -11.89%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £609
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.15% -4.90% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £21.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +8 171 £514 +8.21% 86
Doncaster -6 1 - - 8
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (11.93%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.11%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.55%) Apache
4 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.84%) Apache Superset
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (52.84%) AWS
2 83 (47.16%) GCP
3 35 (19.89%) GitHub
4 31 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (15.91%) Entra ID
6 22 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.11%) Serverless
11 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.84%) Kong
12 5 (2.84%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.27%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (2.27%) Azure Storage
13 4 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.27%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.09%) Network Security
2 13 (7.39%) DNS
3 11 (6.25%) Firewall
4 5 (2.84%) VPN
5 4 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.70%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.14%) DHCP
7 2 (1.14%) LAN
7 2 (1.14%) Multicast
7 2 (1.14%) NAS
7 2 (1.14%) SAN
7 2 (1.14%) VLAN
7 2 (1.14%) WAN
8 1 (0.57%) Intranet
8 1 (0.57%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.82%) Big Data
1 12 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.68%) Data Lake
2 10 (5.68%) Power BI
3 7 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.84%) Neo4j
5 5 (2.84%) Trino
6 4 (2.27%) Metadata
6 4 (2.27%) Redis
7 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.14%) Flink
8 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 33 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.48%) JIRA
3 13 (7.39%) Git
4 8 (4.55%) GitLab
4 8 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.14%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.14%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.57%) Maven
7 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.57%) Postman
7 1 (0.57%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 69 (39.20%) Finance
3 29 (16.48%) Banking
4 24 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Law
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Billing
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (14.77%) Architect
1 26 (14.77%) Lead
2 20 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (10.23%) Developer
4 12 (6.82%) Senior
5 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (5.68%) Consultant
7 9 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.41%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (31.25%) Terraform
2 24 (13.64%) REST
3 18 (10.23%) OAuth
4 15 (8.52%) Kafka
4 15 (8.52%) OpenID
5 14 (7.95%) .NET
5 14 (7.95%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.39%) SAML
7 12 (6.82%) React
8 10 (5.68%) SailPoint
9 9 (5.11%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.55%) JSON
11 7 (3.98%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.98%) FIDO
11 7 (3.98%) Spring
11 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.98%) Web Services
12 6 (3.41%) HTML
12 6 (3.41%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.93%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (9.66%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 11 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.68%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.41%) PKI
7 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.84%) Replication
9 4 (2.27%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.70%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.23%) Windows
2 17 (9.66%) Linux
3 15 (8.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.70%) AIX
4 3 (1.70%) Android
4 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.70%) DevOps
2 90 (51.14%) CI/CD
3 62 (35.23%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (28.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (24.43%) Observability
6 41 (23.30%) Agile
7 39 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (18.75%) AI
9 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.61%) Microservices
11 30 (17.05%) Analytics
11 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (16.48%) DevSecOps
13 27 (15.34%) Software Engineering
13 27 (15.34%) Test Automation
14 25 (14.20%) Cloud Security
15 24 (13.64%) RBAC
16 23 (13.07%) Roadmaps
16 23 (13.07%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (34.66%) Python
2 40 (22.73%) Java
3 33 (18.75%) SQL
4 28 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.95%) C#
6 11 (6.25%) Bash
7 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.55%) Bicep
8 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.98%) Go
9 7 (3.98%) Groovy
9 7 (3.98%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Cypher
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.66%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.11%) CISSP
3 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (3.98%) CCSP
5 7 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.98%) CISM
5 7 (3.98%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.98%) PMP
6 6 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.41%) CCSK
7 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.14%) NCDA
9 2 (1.14%) NCIE
9 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.98%) NIST
3 5 (2.84%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.84%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.84%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.27%) GRC
5 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) PMO
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 31 (17.61%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.48%) Docker
3 9 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.70%) vSphere
6 2 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.14%) SRDF
7 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.57%) Ceph
7 1 (0.57%) NFS
7 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (33.52%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.64%) Ansible
3 15 (8.52%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.39%) Grafana
5 8 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.98%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.70%) Argo
8 3 (1.70%) Packer
8 3 (1.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.14%) SnapMirror
9 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.57%) QRadar
10 1 (0.57%) SnapVault
10 1 (0.57%) WMI
Vendors
1 58 (32.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.09%) Databricks
3 13 (7.39%) Google
4 12 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.11%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.55%) Okta
6 8 (4.55%) VMware
7 7 (3.98%) OpenAI
8 6 (3.41%) Centrify
8 6 (3.41%) Splunk
9 5 (2.84%) Cisco
10 4 (2.27%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.27%) Ping Identity
10 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.70%) Veeam
12 2 (1.14%) Brocade
12 2 (1.14%) Dell
12 2 (1.14%) EMC
12 2 (1.14%) NetApp
12 2 (1.14%) Oracle